'''Korea''' is a peninsula in [[East Asia]], connected by land to [[North East (China)|Northeast China]] and the [[Russian Far East]] to the north, across the Yellow Sea from [[Beijing]] to its west, and separated from [[Japan]] by the Korea Strait to its east.

'''Korea''' is a peninsula in [[East Asia]], connected by land to [[North East (China)|Northeast China]] and the [[Russian Far East]] to the north, across the Yellow Sea from [[Beijing]] to its west, and separated from [[Japan]] by the Korea Strait to its east.

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The peninsula is divided into two countries:

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The peninsula is divided into two ''de facto'' countries, although neither government acknowledges the other as a legitimate sovereign state: